KISSIMMEE, Fla. • For longer than most of the players who took the field Friday have been alive, the Houston Astros have been playing spring training games at Osceola Stadium, and the Cardinals have dutifully been visiting as often as the Grapefruit League schedule demands.
No more.
The Cardinals failed to pull off a trick in the ninth inning to flip a 6-3 loss Friday into a walk-away win in their final visit to the mid-Florida ballpark. The Cardinals got the go-ahead run to the plate with the bases loaded in the ninth but were unable to crack a lead the Astros held since jumping out to a 3-0 lead early.